Random music news for Thursday, February 5, 2026
Meanwhile, in Florida, iguana-cicles. Everywhere else, it’s time for music news for February 5, 2026. BONUS: How to explain Trump. “Liberals read, conservatives watch TV.”
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It’s a radio industry rule that I post this every year: The WKRP Turkey Drop.
This remains the greatest radio-related comedy sequence in the history of television. The WKRP turkey drop is a forever classic and goes viral every single year. (Parade has a great
Read MoreRandom music news for Saturday, April 27, 2024
In Berlin for the weekend for a speaking gig. My hotel is just down the street from the apartment where Bowie and Iggy stayed in 1977. As for music news
Read MoreRandom music news for Monday, April 25, 2022
A poop pill miracle for crushing it at the gym? Maybe. Now here’s the situation with music news for April 25, 2022. Mick Jagger has a few things to say
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With the death of Howard Hesseman, here’s the biography/obituary of Dr. Johnny Fever
When I was still a little nubbin figuring out what I wanted to do when I grew up, I became a fan of WKRP in Cincinnati, the CBS sitcom about
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Gift idea: How did I miss this radio-related present?
I was already in radio when this appeared in the Sears catalogue in 1982. Still, I would have grabbed one had I known it existed!
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Damn. I was really hoping for a supernova in our lifetime, but it’s not going to happen. Assuage yourself with music news for June 18, 2021. RIP Frank Bonner, the
Read MoreRandom music news for Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Jeezus. These people are nuts. Ignore them and focus on music news for December 29, 2020, instead. That recorded voice that came out of the exploding RV in Nashville has
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Because it’s US Thanksgiving, it’s almost the law I post this.
As God as my witness, this is a TV classic.
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Random music news for Wednesday, February 20, 2019
This is the date–February 20, 2003–of the Station Nightclub Fire in Rhode Island when 100 people died and 200 were injured when the pyro went wrong during a Great White
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All the songs played on the original editions of WKRP in Cincinnati tracked for the first time
When WKRP in Cincinnati debuted on CBS in the fall of 1978, it introduced a radical use of music. Up until then, it was extraordinarily rare to hear real music
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